PLANS to encourage people to shop the owners of dogs fouling pavements are a great idea -- but a recent experience convinces me that it won't work.

It also suggests that councils will need to educate would-be snoopers on how exactly a man's best friend does the business, and the differences between male and female dogs.

I was recently minding my own business as our Scottish highland terrier did a pee on a patch of grass. I was awoken from an early morning daydream after a passer-by began taking photographs of the two us.

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